SUNCHOKE is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. SUNCHOKE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SUNCHOKE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SUNCHOKE is to know. It scores 17 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SUNCHOKE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
sunchokesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SUNCHOKE scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in SUNCHOKE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SUNCHOKE has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about SUNCHOKE
- All 8 letters of SUNCHOKE are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SUNCHOKE mean in Scrabble?
noun
North American
The knobbly edible root of a tall North American sunflower, eaten as a vegetable.
Cooks like the sunchoke for its nutty, slightly sweet taste, whether roasted, mashed or sliced thin for soup. The plant itself looks much like a sunflower, and the same food goes by other names in other places.
How SUNCHOKE is used
The word sunchoke is the common market name in North America.
- We roasted a tray of sunchoke with olive oil.
- Sunchoke soup is smooth and faintly sweet.
- The farmer dug up a bucket of sunchoke tubers.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SUNCHOKE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SUNCHOKE
The 8 tiles of SUNCHOKE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SUNCHOKE
1 longer words begin with SUNCHOKE.
Shorter words from the letters in SUNCHOKE
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Common questions about SUNCHOKE
- Is SUNCHOKE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SUNCHOKE, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SUNCHOKE worth?
- SUNCHOKE is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SUNCHOKE mean?
- The knobbly edible root of a tall North American sunflower, eaten as a vegetable.
- What letters can be added to SUNCHOKE?
- SUNCHOKE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of SUNCHOKE:
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